Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media
This paper argues that expanding the scope of social media studies to examine birth and early life at one end, and death and memorialisation at the other, demonstrates that social media is never just about an individual, but also the way individuals are always already joined together as families, gr...
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| description | This paper argues that expanding the scope of social media studies to examine birth and early life at one end, and death and memorialisation at the other, demonstrates that social media is never just about an individual, but also the way individuals are always already joined together as families, groups, communities and more. Mapping these ends of identity also reveals more of the nuances of everyday social media use and its impact. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-447402020-07-22T05:33:08Z Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media Leaver, Tama birth social media childhood digital death This paper argues that expanding the scope of social media studies to examine birth and early life at one end, and death and memorialisation at the other, demonstrates that social media is never just about an individual, but also the way individuals are always already joined together as families, groups, communities and more. Mapping these ends of identity also reveals more of the nuances of everyday social media use and its impact. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44740 10.1177/2056305115578877 Sage fulltext |
| spellingShingle | birth social media childhood digital death Leaver, Tama Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media |
| title | Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media |
| title_full | Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media |
| title_fullStr | Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media |
| title_short | Researching the Ends of Identity: Birth and Death on Social Media |
| title_sort | researching the ends of identity: birth and death on social media |
| topic | birth social media childhood digital death |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44740 |